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To the "Troll Church" with my sister and my daughter.

Dato:
27.06.2020
Turlengde:
8:19t
Distanse:
14,6km

The Troll Church [Norwegian: Trollkyrkja] is a fascinating series of three caves that a little river have carved out of a marble stratum in the the mountain. The mountain is, apart from that layer, formed by granite, and granite is what you mostly see on the surface of the ground up there; but as you enter the caves, you'll notice that the walls, the ceiling, and the floor of the caves are all marble, adding to the beauty of these caves. I have previously twice visited the Troll Church. First, I visited it alone on October 19th 2019; and since I found it quite fascinating, one week later, I even took my wife there for a visit [i.e. on October 26th]. On both of these occasions I wrote the tour description in Norwegian, but for the photos, and for the GPS tracking of these trips, you may follow >>>

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Round Trip over Tindfjell, Blåskjærdingen and Rekdalshesten

Dato:
06.06.2020
Turlengde:
8:47t
Distanse:
20,6km

I have ascended Mount Blåskjerdingen multiple times, sometimes on ski during winter, and sometimes on foot during summer. The mountain has a characteristic cleft, about 30 meters deep, close to the summit, and so it has a southern top of 1062 m.a.m.s.l. in addition to the main or northern peak of 1069 m.a.m.s.l. The mountain is usually climbed from the south, and when ascending it by skis during winter, you usually just visit the slightly lower southern peak, as you can't traverse the cleft with skis on. If you want to go all the way to the northern peak during winter, you should switch from skis and poles to crampons and an ice axe before you embark on climbing the cleft; and yet there would be the danger of climbing on a snow shelf that could break off, if you're not familiar with the wind >>>

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Round Trip over Mountains Oterfjellet, Storhaugen and Melen

Dato:
30.05.2020
Turtype:
Miksklatring
Turlengde:
6:15t
Distanse:
15,0km

When trekking a very high mountain, it's usually sufficient to ascend one at a time. When climbing smaller mountains, however, it's often quite feasible to ascend two, three or four in a row; especially if they're interconnected by some sort of a ridge, so that you don't have to descend too much when traversing from one mountain to the next. Now, there are three mountains in the Vestnes Municipality in the County of Møre & Romsdal that I had never climbed before, and which I wanted to climb on this particular day. I have seen all three of them multiple times from afar, but I had not ascended any of them until now. I drove to the Reset Parking Lot (see map and GPS-track) just on the border between the Municipalities of Ålesund and Vestnes, and started trekking from there. I passed south >>>

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Tour Skiing to Mount Auskjeret with my Daugther

Dato:
23.05.2020
Turtype:
Randonnée/Telemark
Turlengde:
3:18t
Distanse:
7,2km

We woke up early this morning, and went in my daughter’s RAV4 to the Overøye Stordal Alpine Center [N: Overøye Stordal Skisenter]. Due to heavy snowfall over two weeks, followed by rapid thawing over the next few days, there had been a lot of avalanches over the last 4 days; hence when discussing this trip the previous evening, we had been quite eager to pick a mountain that we could hike without climbing any slopes exceeding 30°. Auskjeret in Fjord Municipality is well known as a “safe mountain”; i.e. people even climb it when huge avalanches have just occurred on the neighbour mountain which is called Ørastolen. [We actually climbed Mount Ørastolen a little more than a year ago, my daughter, and I; and just three weeks later there was a tremendous avalanche traversing the entire >>>

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Ski Touring to Mount Kyrkjetaket [i.e. "The Church Roof"]

Dato:
18.05.2020
Turtype:
Randonnée/Telemark
Turlengde:
4:43t
Distanse:
13,6km

This was my second attempt at ascending Mount Kyrkjetaket [i.e. The Church Roof ] in Rauma Municipality in the County of Møre & Romsdal. My first attempt was about two weeks earlier, but then I climbed only up to Mount Steinberget (981 m.a.m.s.l.); where I turned around and went back down due to bad weather conditions and low visibility. It's a common saying in Norway, that There's no shame in turning around , meaning that if the weather's not on your side, it's better to abandon the goal for your ski tour and survive, than to push on, and then die in the attempt to reach the goal. Right now I was having one week off work, and I had been planning to make a new attempt on Mount Kyrkjetaket this week. I had actually been thinking of visiting the mountain on the wednesday or so, but according >>>

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Alpine Ski Touring to Mount Smørbottind and Mount Kvasstind

Dato:
09.05.2020
Turlengde:
3:46t
Distanse:
12,0km

Whenever I’ve been mountain skiing throughout the last few years (i.e. on trips shared here on PeakBook), I’ve always been using my Scottybob Telemark skis. I have been dreaming of buying a nice pair of alpine touring skis as well, however, but due to the cost connected with such a procurement, I’ve not done it until now. I’ve been having a nice pair of off piste skis that have been stored in our garage, and which I haven’t been using for a numbers of years. I actually bought them as a pair of Telemark skis back in 2007 or 2008, and I used them quite a lot for the first few years, but I stopped using them after I got my Telemark-specific Scottybob skis. For a number of years now, I’ve been thinking of mounting some alpine bindings onto my old off piste skis, as the Völkl Mantra

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There's no Shame in Turning Around

Dato:
02.05.2020
Turtype:
Randonnée/Telemark
Turlengde:
3:47t
Distanse:
9,5km

The Norwegian Mountain Code [Norw. Fjellvettreglene] is a set of rules made to ensure safe trekking and skiing in the mountains. Rule number 8 in this set of guidelines, reads Don't be ashamed to turn around. The point with this guideline, is that there are times when your survival in the mountains may depend upon your ability to change your plan. Anyone familiar with the changing weather conditions in the mountains, will know this. There are times when pressing on to reach a goal in spite of treacherous weather, and maybe in spite of bad planning, will mean inevitable death, or at least a high risk of death. On this day the weather forecast said weather was going to be cloudy, but otherwise pretty fair. I had desired for a while to ascend Mount Kyrkjetaket [i.e. "The Church Roof"] >>>

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Climbing Mount Ulriken in Bergen from the Rear Side

Dato:
23.04.2020
Turtype:
Alpintur
Turlengde:
3:23t
Distanse:
9,9km

I do not know how many times I’ve climbed Mount Ulriken in the city of Bergen. There are three commonly used trails up to the top of this mountain, one with very nice stone stairs; and then there are 4 or 5 less commonly used trails. On this occasion, however, I had decided to climb the mountain from the rear side, where there’s no trail along which you may hike. Due to the Covid19 pandemic, all indoor facilities for climbing and bouldering have been closed for the last 6 weeks or so; and as the outdoor climbing season is quickly approaching, I wanted to do some practising on a not too difficult mountain, so it won’t be too exhausting for my arms when I embark on some really high and steep mountains. I trekked around the northern side of a lake that in ancient times was called Alrekstadvatnet,

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Running Across Mount Rundemanen and Mount Blåmanen

Dato:
22.04.2020
Turtype:
Løpetur
Turlengde:
2:06t
Distanse:
14,1km

I have frequently been jogging/running across Mount Rundemanen in Bergen. For the last two years I've actually done that at least once a week whenever I've been in Bergen. For the most part I've been doing this run by myself, but on this occasion I went running with two colleagues of mine. They had both been jogging on this mountain before, but they weren't as familiar with the many paths and trails as I have become during the 7 years that I've been working in Bergen. After we had made it up the valley Våkendalen to the top of Mount Rundemanen, I therefore asked the two of them if they had ever been to the summits of the neighboring Mount Blåmanen; and since neither of them had, we took of from the mountain road descending from Mount Rundemanen along the west side of Mount Blåmanen, and >>>

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Telemark Skiing to Mount Breivikheia in Rauma Municipality

Dato:
18.04.2020
Turtype:
Randonnée/Telemark
Turlengde:
3:42t
Distanse:
13,7km

I have lately been skiing a number of the mountains between the two fjords Langfjorden and Romsdalsfjorden [i.e. The Long Fjord and The Rauma Valley Fjord, respektively]. Many of the mountains on the peninsula between these two fjords are readily accessible from the parking lot at the Rauma Ski Center in Skorgedalen Valley, where space for parking is also plentiful. You do have to pay a fee in order to drive up to the parking lot, though. The ski resort was closed at the moment due to the Covid-19 pandemia closedown, but in Norway we were still allowed to use parking lots like this one, and we were still allowed to go hiking and skiing in the mountains, as long as no more than five persons were out there together. I crossed the river Skorgeelva by use of a nice bridge that have been built there >>>

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